Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OSPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OSPF over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 637 730
Rank change year-on-year +38 +93 -223
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 328 356 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.42% 2.23% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 265 292 385
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -7.54% +8.15%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £46,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -13.08% +7.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

OSPF is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,580 15,992 20,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.78% 15.46% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,473 8,159 11,855
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.17% +2.22%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OSPF.

Salary trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +116 315 £50,500 -3.81% 82
UK excluding London +32 244 £48,500 +4.30% 59
Work from Home +49 128 £50,000 -28.57% 39
South East +25 81 £53,000 +13.98% 16
London +94 77 £65,000 - 34
North of England +51 76 £42,500 -9.57% 13
North West +56 63 £40,000 -42.86% 6
Midlands +45 57 £48,500 -16.74% 7
West Midlands +53 56 £48,500 -16.74% 3
South West -12 24 £48,500 -3.00% 8
Yorkshire +65 16 £49,000 +8.89% 6
Scotland -61 8 £65,000 - 9
East of England +8 5 £62,500 +4.17% 4
North East -24 3 £62,500 +49.70% 2
Wales +13 1 £46,500 - 3
East Midlands -16 1 £60,000 +6.67% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.44%) Skype for Business
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) uWSGI
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (17.68%) Azure
2 49 (14.94%) AWS
3 14 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.66%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (3.66%) IaaS
5 7 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (2.13%) PaaS
5 7 (2.13%) SaaS
6 5 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.22%) GCP
8 2 (0.61%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.61%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.61%) OpenDNS
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.30%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 291 (88.72%) BGP
2 184 (56.10%) WAN
3 164 (50.00%) MPLS
4 162 (49.39%) Firewall
4 162 (49.39%) LAN
5 111 (33.84%) TCP/IP
6 110 (33.54%) VPN
7 106 (32.32%) SD-WAN
8 104 (31.71%) Wireless
9 83 (25.30%) VLAN
10 67 (20.43%) DNS
11 66 (20.12%) DHCP
11 66 (20.12%) EIGRP
12 56 (17.07%) IPsec
13 55 (16.77%) Network Security
14 50 (15.24%) Wi-Fi
15 49 (14.94%) Ethernet
16 48 (14.63%) Internet
16 48 (14.63%) WLAN
17 42 (12.80%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
3 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.22%) JIRA
1 4 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.62%) Law
3 25 (7.62%) Telecoms
4 19 (5.79%) Finance
5 10 (3.05%) Legal
6 9 (2.74%) Retail
7 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.22%) Military
8 4 (1.22%) Publishing
9 3 (0.91%) Banking
9 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Billing
10 2 (0.61%) Electronics
10 2 (0.61%) Front Office
10 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.61%) Police
11 1 (0.30%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 168 (51.22%) Network Engineer
2 56 (17.07%) Senior
3 50 (15.24%) Analyst
3 50 (15.24%) Network Analyst
4 44 (13.41%) Senior Network Engineer
5 37 (11.28%) Network Operations Analyst
5 37 (11.28%) Operations Analyst
6 29 (8.84%) Network Support
7 25 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.71%) Architect
9 21 (6.40%) Cisco Engineer
9 21 (6.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 21 (6.40%) IP Engineer
9 21 (6.40%) IP Network Engineer
10 20 (6.10%) Support Engineer
11 15 (4.57%) Network Specialist
11 15 (4.57%) Network Support Engineer
12 14 (4.27%) Juniper Engineer
12 14 (4.27%) Lead
12 14 (4.27%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.94%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.44%) SAML
3 7 (2.13%) HTML
3 7 (2.13%) XML
4 5 (1.52%) XMPP
5 4 (1.22%) Akka
6 3 (0.91%) CSS
7 2 (0.61%) LAMP
7 2 (0.61%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 82 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.96%) Virtual Team
4 12 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.05%) Client/Server
5 10 (3.05%) PKI
6 8 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.13%) Clustering
7 7 (2.13%) FMCG
8 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.22%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.91%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.91%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.76%) Linux
2 19 (5.79%) VyOS
2 19 (5.79%) Windows
3 9 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.44%) Unix
5 7 (2.13%) Android
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.61%) VMS
7 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (13.11%) Network Design
3 42 (12.80%) Customer Service
3 42 (12.80%) Mentoring
4 33 (10.06%) Network Management
5 32 (9.76%) Network Monitoring
6 31 (9.45%) ITIL
7 30 (9.15%) Network Architecture
8 27 (8.23%) Load Balancing
9 25 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (6.40%) High Availability
10 21 (6.40%) Information Security
11 20 (6.10%) Roadmaps
12 18 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (5.18%) Change Management
13 17 (5.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (5.18%) Network Virtualisation
13 17 (5.18%) Project Delivery
14 13 (3.96%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (3.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.71%) Python
2 21 (6.40%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.74%) Bash
4 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (50.61%) Cisco Certification
2 108 (32.93%) CCNP
3 95 (28.96%) CCNA
4 61 (18.60%) CCIE
5 56 (17.07%) Security Cleared
6 45 (13.72%) CCDP
7 34 (10.37%) JNCIA
8 26 (7.93%) Degree
9 20 (6.10%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.05%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.44%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 7 (2.13%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.52%) HNC
14 5 (1.52%) HND
14 5 (1.52%) JNCIE
15 4 (1.22%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.91%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.79%) SLA
2 13 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.88%) Firmware
3 14 (4.27%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.52%) Docker
5 5 (1.52%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.22%) vCloud
6 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.61%) pfSense
8 2 (0.61%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (13.11%) FortiGate
2 15 (4.57%) Ansible
2 15 (4.57%) Puppet
3 10 (3.05%) Terraform
4 8 (2.44%) Nagios
4 8 (2.44%) Progress Chef
4 8 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (2.13%) Icinga
6 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.52%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.52%) SolarWinds Orion
7 5 (1.52%) WSUS
8 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.91%) Grafana
9 2 (0.61%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.61%) Nessus
9 2 (0.61%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 206 (62.80%) Cisco
2 134 (40.85%) Juniper
3 81 (24.70%) Fortinet
4 37 (11.28%) Nokia
5 36 (10.98%) Palo Alto
6 34 (10.37%) Meraki
7 31 (9.45%) Microsoft
8 29 (8.84%) CheckPoint
9 27 (8.23%) F5
9 27 (8.23%) Ruckus Wireless
10 25 (7.62%) SolarWinds
11 23 (7.01%) VMware
12 21 (6.40%) Aruba
13 19 (5.79%) Vyatta
14 11 (3.35%) Arista
14 11 (3.35%) Extreme Networks
14 11 (3.35%) HP
14 11 (3.35%) McAfee
15 10 (3.05%) Google
16 8 (2.44%) Tufin